Re: pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> someone wrote:
>
>>>> Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by
>>>> killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to
>>>> continue re-syncing where it left off?  Or does stopping Server B
>>>> while in recovery mode require any manual re-sync steps before it can
>>>> resume recovery?
>>> I think you'll need to redo the whole process : restore the full data
>>> backup, create the recovery.conf file, etc.
>
> No, you don't.  The server can continue replaying files.
>

Oops, sorry about this. I thought it would have a hard time to go back
to recovery mode. That's great to know. Thanks.


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